HELP SOUGHT IN SOLVING TEEN'S SLAYING.Byline: Greg GREG Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River (US National Park Service) Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - A 15-year-old Lancaster boy was shot to death in what investigators said Friday may have been a gang-related shooting. Israel Escobar was gunned down as he and companions walked along Morningside Avenue Morningside Avenue is a north-south street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the former city of Scarborough. The street starts at Guildwood Parkway, and Lake Ontario to the south, and travels along the former Lot 10 line northwards through the Highland Creek valley, to Finch near 25th Street East in Lancaster just after 6 p.m. Thursday. ``Investigators are still up there trying to figure out happened,'' said Deputy Tanya Plunket of the Sheriff's Information Bureau. The shooting occurred as Escobar and his companions were walking along Morningside Avenue and passed another group of teenagers, officials said. Someone in the group drew a handgun and fired at the first group, striking Escobar. Witnesses said the teen suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The second group scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. and had disappeared by the time deputies arrived. Deputies searched two homes in the neighborhood looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the gunman. Paramedics arrived and tried to resuscitate re·sus·ci·tate v. To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to. the boy but he was already dead. Investigators said they have very little information to work with and are hoping that witnesses will come forward with descriptions. Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter. Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Greg Botonis, (661) 267-7802 gregory.botonis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Sheriff's deputies search a vacant lot in Lancaster near the site where a 15-year-old boy was shot to death Thursday. Paul Weatherman/Special to the Daily News |
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